AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE SITULA HANDLE

CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE SITULA HANDLE
CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
The two arching rectangular section swing handles with knobbed terminals, each side hung with an attachment plate with frontally facing masks, one in the form of a horned youthful satyr with curly hair and pointed ears, the other in the form of a bearded silenos with pointed ears, snub nose and spouted gaping mouth, his chin conjoined with the mask of a woman with curly hair, 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) across; and a Graeco-Roman bronze lion head protome with gaping mouth, 1st Century A.D., 1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) long (2)

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Item one: a purchase receipt from the Arcade Gallery Ltd., Old Bond Street, London, dated 1963 accompanies the handle.

Cf. S. Haynes, Etruscan Bronzes, London, 1985, pp. 221 and 301, no. 166, pl. 166 for a situla handle attachment with man's head surmounted by a satyr's head.